I have an HTC Desire Z; and I have the portable wifi hotspot availalbe.. secured with a password. However it seems that ppl still access my internet as it shows users connected. Now I would like to know who it is.

Is it possible that if someone connects to your mobile wifi hotspot; u can connect to their phone and see for example contacts list and messages?

if you are using joikuspot (just guessing, if not provide more information), make sure you get the premium version so you can set a (not so obvious ssid name) password to ensure nobody is piggy-backing on your hotspot.

CISSP, CEH, ECSA, OSCP, OSWP, eCPPT, eWAPT

earning my stripes appears to be a road i must travel alone...with a little help of EH.net

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it ALMOST seemed like MrSmith007 was trying to social engineer some info, perhaps to use his AP in the wrong way (to allow him to access unsuspecting folks' contacts and phone info.)

If intentions and description were truthful, apologies. Just that sometimes you get that feeling in your gut, especially when something like that is a FIRST post...

~ hayabusa ~

"All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved." - Sun Tzu, 'The Art of War'

3xban... Maybe I'm way behind on this... Were you previously Triban, on here? Sorry if you were, and previously made a name change known, and I missed it, but just wanted to make sure who you were. :-)

~ hayabusa ~

"All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved." - Sun Tzu, 'The Art of War'

hayabusa wrote:3xban... Maybe I'm way behind on this... Were you previously Triban, on here? Sorry if you were, and previously made a name change known, and I missed it, but just wanted to make sure who you were. :-)

ha, yeah, that is me. technically it still is "Triban" I've been messing with personas and trying to find one that seems to work. Need to invent something to use if I need to get some "dirty" files from some no so savory places on the net if I want some decent malware samples.

Chrisj, maybe I will mess around with that. Give me something interesting to do.

@3xban - cool. Just wondered if my 1337 (yeah, as if) powers of observation were on pointe, or not. I remember tweaking mine a few times, back in the day, and I still keep a couple spares for the same reason as you, but they're totally different, and wouldn't be recognizable, were you to happen across them, in the handful of sites I use them on. But I totally understand your reasons.

~ hayabusa ~

"All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved." - Sun Tzu, 'The Art of War'

HA! I made it to the single posts, but then lost interest. I popped through a few and some were valid but either they never got a response or they are fairly new. There are a ton of zero accounts, then I saw the total number of members and realized this could take a while. Around page 86 is when you see the single digits.